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The Affordability Goal and Prices in the National Flood Insurance Program
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2017
The United States Gulf Region features areas that face significant flood risk. Climate change may further elevate this … challenges, the Federal government has enacted a complex set of policies through its National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The …
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The affordability goal and prices in the National Flood Insurance Program
Kahn, Matthew E.; Smith, Vincent Kerry - 2017
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The Affordability Goal and Prices in the National Flood Insurance Program
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2017
The United States Gulf Region features areas that face significant flood risk. Climate change may further elevate this … challenges, the Federal government has enacted a complex set of policies through its National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453579
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Adapting to Flood Risk : Evidence from a Panel of Global Cities
Gandhi, Sahil; Kahn, Matthew E.; Kochhar, Rajat; Lall, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
. By constructing a global city data set that covers the years 2012 to 2018, we test several flood risk adaptation … hypotheses. Population growth is lower in cities that suffer from more floods. Richer cities suffer fewer deaths from flood …
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Heroes & cowards : the social face of war
Costa, Dora L.; Kahn, Matthew E. - 2008
Heroes and Cowards demonstrates the role that social capital plays in people's decisions. The makeup of various companies--whether soldiers were of the same ethnicity, age, and occupation--influenced whether soldiers remained loyal or whether they deserted. Costa and Kahn discuss how the...
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The death toll from natural disaster : the role of income, geography, and institutions
Kahn, Matthew E. - In: The review of economics and statistics 87 (2005) 2, pp. 271-284
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The Effect of Natural Disasters on Economic Activity in Us Counties : A Century of Data
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2017
consistent with falling local productivity and labor demand. Disasters that convey more information about future disaster risk …
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Mortgage Finance in the Face of Rising Climate Risk
Ouazad, Amine - 2019
. Concurrently, the number and volume of flood insurance policies has been declining since 2008. Hence, households who have purchased … screen and price mortgages for flood risk. Banks also retain the option to securitize some of these loans. In particular …, bank lenders may have an incentive to sell their worse flood risk to the two main agency securitizers, the Federal National …
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The effect of natural disasters on economic activity in US counties : a century of data
Boustan, Leah Platt; Kahn, Matthew E.; Rhode, Paul W.; … - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011666851
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Will climate change cause enormous social costs for poor Asian cities?
Kahn, Matthew E. - In: Asian development review 34 (2017) 2, pp. 229-248
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